Anna Paquin

It was unclear which fact was more extraordinary about Anna Paquin - that she won an Academy Award at age 11 for her performance in "The Piano" (1993), or after her win, that she had no plans to conti...
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After weeks of watching, re-watching, live-tweeting, recapping, analyzing, and debating, the fourth season of Game of Thrones has finally come to an end, leaving a void in both our hearts and our Twitter feeds. Once the fanfare and discussions about the shocking deaths and the major changes from the books finally die down, we will be faced with an unbearable winter without Westeros. How will we carry on without Dany and her dragons? How can we stay calm when we don’t know what’s happening with Tyrion? How will we survive the long months before we get new episodes?
Well, by watching TV of course. Game of Thrones may have ended, but there are plenty more shows with all of the fantasy, politics, blood and nudity that we have come to rely on David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for, and we don’t even have to wait until next year to enjoy them. We've run down all of the shows airing in 2014 that will help fill the Westeros-sized hole in your heart, and how long you have to wait to get your fix. And if that doesn't work, there's still several thousand pages of George R.R. Martin's writing available for you to read. That should help pass the time.
True Blood How Long We Have To Wait: One week until June 22. What It’s About: The seventh and final season of the Southern vampire drama picks up with most of the characters dead or seemingly dead, an outbreak of Hep-V terrorizing the vampire population and everyone gaining and losing characters quicker than alliances shift on Game of Thrones. How It Will Fill the Void: True Blood and Game of Thrones have two key elements in common: blood and nudity. Expect plenty of both in the upcoming season.Airs: Sundays at 9 PM on HBO.
Tyrant How Long We Have To Wait: A week until June 24.What It’s About: The second son of a dictator leader of a foreign country returns from a self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, and must deal with the conflicts that arise between the culture of his homeland and the US and his oppressive father. How It Will Fill the Void: If you’re looking for political intrigue, culture clashes, a struggle for power and a father/son dynamic reminiscent of Tywin and Tyrion Lannister, this is the show for you.Airs: Tuesdays at 10 PM on FX.
The Leftovers How Long We Have to Wait: Two weeks until June 29.What It’s About: Set two years after 2 percent of the population disappears in the rapture, the series follows the rest of the world as they struggle to understand what happened to their loved ones, and attempt to move forward with their lives. How It Will Fill the Void: Like the White Walkers, the Children, and everything Melisandre is doing with the Lord of the Light, The Leftovers centers on a strange, unexplained supernatural phenomenon, and explores the personal drama that results.Airs: Sundays at 10 PM on HBO.
The Strain How Long We Have to Wait: Four weeks until July 13.What It’s About: Created by Guillermo del Toro, The Strain is about a viral strain that turns people into horrifying, bloodsucking monsters that are terrorizing the population. It’s also based on a trilogy of books by Chuck Hogan, in case you’re all caught up on A Song of Ice and Fire. How It Will Fill the Void: It’s got horror, terror, suspense, excitement, supernatural elements and – we’re assuming – plenty of gore. Plus, it has Walder Frey himself, David Bradley, presumably on a mission to traumatize as many viewers as humanly possible.Airs: Sundays at 10 PM on FX.
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Masters of Sex How Long We Have to Wait: Four weeks until July 13.What It’s About: The pioneering work on human sexuality done by William Masters and Virginia Johnson in the 1950s. The second season will see Masters and Johnson grow closer, and the challenges it presents their personal and professional relationships. How It Will Fill the Void: All of the nudity and explicit sexual situations, but presented in a way that not only serves a narrative purpose and raises important questions about society and the human body, but also isn’t degrading towards women. What a novel concept!Airs: Sundays at 10 PM on Showtime.
Outlander How Long We Have to Wait: Two months until August 9.What It’s About: Based on the novels by Diana Gabaldon, the series follows Claire, a World War II nurse who is mysteriously sent back in time to the 1700s. There she is forced to marry Jaime Fraiser, a romantic and chivalrous Scottish soldier, and she is torn between two very different lives. How It Will Fill the Void: It’s a sweeping period epic that incorporates sci-fi, adventure, war, and romance that should help you move on from the tragic ending of Jon and Ygritte’s relationship.Airs: Saturdays at 9 PM on Starz.
Sleepy Hollow How Long We Have to Wait: Four months until September 22.What It’s About: The surprise hit of last year centers on Ichabod Crane, who is sent forward in time to 2014, where he solves supernatural crimes with Det. Abbie Mills, and the two of them attempt to stop the apocalypse. How It Will Fill the Void: Witty banter, well-matched partners, a supernatural threat, colorful characters, a spooky witch you should probably be wary of and some truly gruesome crimes – throw in a giant and it’s practically Game of Thrones’ fourth season.Airs: Mondays at 9 PM on Fox.
Gotham How Long We Have to Wait: Indeterminate, although it’s likely to premiere in September or October.What It’s About: Before Bruce Wayne grew up to be Batman, it was Det. Jim Gordon who cleaned up the crime and corruption on the streets of Gotham, even if that meant taking on some super villains of his own. How It Will Fill the Void: Like Ned Stark in King’s Landing, Jim Gordon is a noble man trying to bring justice to the murder, manipulation and scheming that runs amok in the city. Let’s hope he fares a bit better.Airs: Mondays at 8 PM on Fox.
Better Call Saul How Long We Have to Wait: Six months until November. What It’s About: A spinoff of Breaking Bad that focuses on Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman, a lawyer who will do anything to keep his operations running smoothly. How It Will Fill the Void: You’ll probably become addicted to it, just as you were to Breaking Bad, which will help pass the time until Game of Thrones returns. Airs: On AMC, although a night and time hasn’t been revealed yet.
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Director Cameron Crowe is reportedly developing his first TV series centring around a fictional U.S. rock band's tour.
The Almost Famous filmmaker is preparing for his first foray into the small screen with an ensemble comedy titled Roadies, according to NikkiFinke.com. Crowe, who created the series and is producing the programme with J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot, is also slated to direct the pilot.
The Oscar winner is currently wrapping up an as-yet-untitled romantic comedy starring Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone, which is set to hit cinemas by the end of the year (14).

"Proud to be a happily married bisexual mother. Marriage is about love not gender." Bisexual actress Anna Paquin, who is married to her True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer, celebrates the start of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride month.

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With the final season of True Blood hitting television screens this summer, our heroine Sookie (Anna Paquin) will be tasked with fighting a new kind of evil: zombie-like vampires. Though we may be sad to see True Blood finally bite the dust, there have been six seasons worth of fantastic villains. We’re taking the time to appreciate some of them before the true death of HBO’s vamp show.
Maryann Forrester (Michelle Forbes)
Maryann’s crimes include hosting huge orgies, creating chaos, forcing humans to do her bidding, and attempting to sacrifice a magical creature. She may not be the most evil of True Blood’s villains — she also, arguably, did have some people’s interests at heart — but let’s not forget the whole sacrifice/mind control thing.
Antonia Gavilán (Paola Turbay/Fiona Shaw)
As far as the reasoning behind villainous intentions, Antonia’s may be the easiest to understand. Though she is overcome with a need for vengeance and possesses Marnie Stonebrook’s (Fiona Shaw) body in an attempt to seek revenge, can you blame her? She was tortured by vampires; given the laundry list of evil vampires we’ve seen on True Blood it’s almost understandable.
Lorena Krasiki (Mariana Klaveno)
For most of her time on True Blood, Lorena is more of a jealous ex-girlfriend than an actual villain. That’s not to say that ex-girlfriends can’t be evil, because Lorena certainly is. However, she’s not that much worse than some other vampires on True Blood, though she does help give the species a bad name.
Macklyn Warlow (Rob Kazinsky)
Warlow — or Ben, as we first knew him — was the main antagonist of the most recent season, but he had been teased for most of the show’s lifespan. Warlow was the vampire that murdered Sookie’s parents. He also tried to force Sookie to marry him, which was as creepy as it was evil. However, as far as nefarious villains, he spent most of the season (literally) tied up which wasn’t very good for his bad guy reputation.
Rene Lenier/Drew Marshall (Michael Raymond-James)
Though Rene — or should we call him Drew — was more species-ist than outright evil, his psychopathic tendencies really don’t help his case. As the first season’s big bad, the vampire and vampire-sympathist murderer made for a great mystery and thrilling season. Plus, anyone who can kill a nice old women like Adele Stackhouse must be at least 89 percent evil.
Steve and Sarah Newlin (Michael McMillian &amp; Anna Camp)
As religious fanatics, Steve and Sarah Newlin commit some cruel atrocities against vampires in the name of their god. However, even though they may have thought what they were doing was right, it wasn’t. Their delusion makes them pretty darn evil, especially Sarah’s testing facility in the sixth season.
Franklin Mott (James Frain)
Though Franklin wasn’t around for a long time, he managed betray some of our beloved characters Tara and Jessica. To make matters worse for himself, he has no redeeming qualities and many viewers were glad to see him die.
Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare)
By far the most evil vampire on True Blood, Russell has little to no regard for human life, he is a crazed lunatic who just wants to watch the world burn, and his proper Southern accent makes him all the more menacing. Plus, he comes back from being buried under massive amounts of concrete. He’s the biggest bad True Blood has seen yet.
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Actress Anna Paquin and husband Stephen Moyer have signed a new production deal with America's HBO network.
The real-life couple's seventh and final season of True Blood will kick off on 22 June (14), but they will extend their partnership with HBO with a new development deal.
Along with their CASM production company, the duo have signed a two-year contract in which they will develop shows, films and mini-series for HBO, with the possibility for both actors to star and direct in any project. Paquin and Moyer launched CASM in 2012.

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Some child actors burst onto the scene in such a big way that even after they grow up and start taking on adult roles, it's impossible to forget where we first saw them. It's easy to see Lindsay Lohan now and picture her as the ponytailed twin heroines of Disney's The Parent Trap. It's also not hard to remember little Drew Barrymore screaming at ET or young Anna Paquin's nervousness at the Oscars after The Piano.
The parts played by other stars back when they were first starting out as youngsters in Hollywood, however, aren't as easy to recall. For most, it was just a small role that helped fill out a resume and for others it was a sizable part, in a few cases opposite actors who had themselves been child stars. Check out these roles that Hollywood's elite played on the silver screen before they were out of their teen years.
GALLERY: 12 Forgotten Roles Played by Now Famous Actors When They Were Kids
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Sylvester Stallone and Eddie Murphy have. So have Ryan Gosling, Anna Paquin, Kate Hudson, and Anna Kendrick. Anne Hathaway and Jonah Hill have … twice. What are we referring to? Oscar nominations. Each of these actors has had his or her name called at one time or another as a nominee for an Academy Award for acting. While there are a number of famous actors that have never won an Oscar, seemingly every performer of note has at least scored a nomination. That sounds right, doesn't it?
Not quite. While it is certain that there are plenty of actors of varying skill levels that have been nominated for an Academy Award during their career, there remains some very surprising omissions. From long-time movie veterans to great character actors to funnymen that dabble in drama, these 15 performers have amazingly never been nominated for an Oscar.
GALLERY: 15 Surprising Actors to Never Get an Oscar Nomination

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There are only a few days left until the 2014 Academy Awards, so most of our predictions are solidified by now. But even though Cate Blanchett appears to be a lock for Best Actress and Alfonso Cuaron has the highest odds of winning Best Director, there's still one race that's impossible to guess: Best Supporting Actress. The two candidates who could snag the trophy are Lupita Nyong'o for her work in 12 Years a Slave and Jennifer Lawrence for her performance in American Hustle.
Normally, we could just rely on the previous awards shows to help influence our predictions. Blanchett and Cuaron have both swept their categories, as have Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto (who we think will take Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively). But Lawrence and Nyong'o have split the opinions of the various awards organizations, which means the Oscar is still anyone's game. In an attempt to solve this problem once and for all and help you solidify your Oscar pool, we've taken a look back at all of the women who have won Best Supporting Actress in order to see if we could use the winners of yesteryear to determine who will walk home with the trophy on Oscar night.
Major Precursor Awards Won: 2 (for each)Lawrence won both the Golden Globe and the BAFTA for her role as Rosalyn Rosenfeld, while Nyong'o picked up the Critic's Choice Award and the Screen Actor's Guild Award for playing the slave girl Patsey.
Actresses 25 and Under Who Won Best Supporting Actress: 8If Lawrence, who at 23 is the youngest actress to earn 3 Oscar nominations, were to take home the award on Sunday, she would join a list of young winners that includes Tatum O’Neal, Patty Duke, Goldie Hawn, Anna Paquin, Jennifer Hudson, Angelina Jolie, Teresa Wright, and Anne Baxter.
Actresses Between 25 and 30 Who Won Best Supporting Actress: 13At 30, Nyong'o would be in good company as a Best Supporting Actress winner, as Shirley Jones, Mary Steenburgen, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Miyoshi Umecki, Gloria Grahame, Kim Hunter, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno, Eva Marie Saint, Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Celeste Holm also took home an Oscar around the same age.
Best Supporting Actress Winners Who Won for Their First Performance: 9It's hard to believe that 12 Years a Slave is Nyong'o's first feature film, but she's not the only actress to impress the Academy with her debut perfomance: Katina Paxinou, Mercedes McCambridge, Eva Marie Saint, Jo Van Fleet, Tatum O’Neal, Goldie Hawn, Miyoshi Umecki, Anna Paquin, and Jennifer Hudson all stunned on their first try.
Actresses Who Won Best Supporting Actress After Winning Best Actress: 3 After winning for Silver Lining's Playbook at last year's awards, Lawrence would join an elite club of women who topped their Best Actress win with a Best Supporting Actress trophy. : Helen Hayes, who won Best Actress for her work in The Sin of Madelon Claudet in 1931 and Best Supporting Actress for Airport in 1970, Ingrid Bergman, who took home Best Actress for Gaslight in 1944 and Anastasia in 1956 then won Best Supporting Actress in 1974 for Murder on the Orient Express, and Maggie Smith, who was awarded Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969 and followed it up with Best Supporting Actress for California Suite 1978.
Best Supporting Actress Winners Who Won on Their First Nomination: 51The Best Supporting Actress category has been particularly kind to newcomers, with 51 actresses who have taken home gold on their first nomination (a fact that bodes well for Nyong'o). If she wins, she would be added to the long list that includes Gale Sondergaard, Hattie McDaniel, Jane Darwell, Mary Astor, Katina Paxinou, Ethel Barrymore, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, Mercedes McCambridge, Josephine Hull, Kim Hunter, Donna Reed, Eva Marie Saint, Jo Van Fleet, Dorothy Malone, Miyoshi Umecki, Shirley Jones, Rita Moreno, Patty Duke, Margaret Rutherford, Lila Kedrova, Sandy Dennis, Estelle Parsons, Goldie Hawn, Cloris Leachmann, Tatum O’Neal, Beatrice Straight, Mary Steenburgen, Jessica Lange, Linda Hunt, Peggy Ashcroft, Anjelica Huston, Dianne Wiest, Olympia Dukakis, Geena Davis, Brenda Fricker, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Anna Paquin, Mira Sorvino, Juliette Binoche, Kim Basinger, Angelina Jolie, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connolly, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Hudson, Tilda Swinton, Mo’Nique, and Octavia Spencer.
Actresses Who Have Won Best Supporting Actress for a Comedic Role: 7Although the Academy tends to favor dramatic performances, the Supporting Actor and Actress categories often reward more comedic roles, like Lawrence's. If she wins, she would join the seven other women who laughed their way to an Oscar: Josephine Hull for Harvey, Goldie Hawn for Cactus Flower, Maggie Smith for California Suite, Olympia Dukakis for Moonstruck, Marisa Tomei for My Cousin Vinny, Mira Sorvino for Mighty Aphrodite, and Penelope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Actresses Who Have Won Best Supporting Actress Winners For Playing Servants: 3Although Nyong'o would be the first Best Supporting Actress winner to win for portraying a slave, three women have previously won for playing servants: Gale Sondergaard, Hattie McDaniel, and Octavia Spencer.
Actresses Who Have Won Best Supporting Actress for Playing the Wife of the Lead: 7Before Rosalyn Rosenfeld came along to "inspire" her husband Iriving, there were countless other wives who played a key role in their husband's stories, and seven actresses won an Oscar for playing them: Mary Astor, Kim Hunter, Gloria Grahame, Jennifer Connolly, Rachel Weisz, Meryl Streep, and Mary Steenburgen.
Black Women Who Have Won Best Supporting Actress: 4If Nyong'o takes home the Oscar on Sunday, she will become only the fifth black woman to win Best Supporting Actress, and just the sixth black woman to win an acting Oscar overall. The previous Best Supporting Actress winners are Hattie McDaniel, Whoopi Goldberg, Mo’Nique, and Octavia Spencer, while Halle Berry is the lone black Best Actress winner.
Actresses Who Have Won Best Supporting Actress for Playing a Character with a New York Accent: 2Whether you love Lawrence's accent in American Hustle or it makes you want to stab yourself in the ears, there's no denying that the New York accent is a tricky one to pull off. Only two women have done it well enough to earn an Oscar: Marisa Tomei as the wise-cracking fianceè of the title character in My Cousin Vinny and Olympia Dukakis as Cher's mother in Moonstruck.
Our Prediction: Lupita Nyong'o Despite being evenly matched, we think that the combination of 12 Years a Slave being Nyong'o's film debut, as well as her first nomination will help swing the votes in her favor, as the Academy has proven that there's nothing it loves more than an impressive breakthrough performance. Plus, she deserves it, and we have to believe that there is some semblance of justice left in this world.
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British singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran has been handed the honour of headlining Sir Elton John's Oscars viewing party. The A Team hitmaker will perform at the 22nd annual Elton John Aids Foundation Academy Award Viewing Party on 2 March (14).
Sir Elton says, "I am absolutely delighted to welcome Ed Sheeran to EJAF's Academy Awards Viewing Party. I've been following his work closely ever since I heard his independent EP, No. 5 Collaborations Project. He's an amazing artist, and I know our guests will be thrilled by his performance."
A delighted Sheeran states, "I'm thrilled to have been invited to perform at the Elton John AIDS Foundation's Oscar-night party. HIV/AIDS is a huge concern for all young people, and I'm delighted to do my part to raise funds for Elton's vision of a world without AIDS."
Meanwhile, Gordon Ramsay will cook dinner for the guests, including Jim Carrey, Judi Dench, Quincy Jones, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, Heidi Klum, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, Katy Perry, Tyler Perry and Sharon Stone, and Johnny Dynell has been booked as the house DJ.

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X-men: Days of Future Past is inching closer and closer to its May release date, and just to make the wait just a little more unbearable, Empire magazine just released a staggering 25 covers featuring different members of the cast. We're already dyed in the wool X-Men fans and are obviously psyched about the upcoming film and the chance to catch a glimpse at the new costumes and characters. But we're curious as to what people who haven't been sucked up into X-Men fandom might think of the new covers with no prior knowledge about the comic book and movie series...
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To the X-Men fan: This is a Sentinel, a robot that was created to hunt down mutants. They have been a staple enemy of the X-Men villain for years and years.
To the Newbie: This is Dyson's new line of fancy vacuum cleaners with mutant genocide devices, that also do wonders on carpets and hardwood floors.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Havok, and he has the ability to shoot energy blasts from his chest.
To the Newbie: This is a kid with a pretty alarming heart condition.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Toad, a member of Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He has super strong legs, a long tongue that can be used as a weapon, and has paralyzing mucus.
To the Newbie: This is Griff Tannen's friend in Back to the Future II, and the years have not been kind to him.
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To the X-Men fan: This is William Stryker, a military leader with a deep-seated hatred for mutant-kind.
To the Newbie: Is this just a regular military guy? I hope he has a gun or something under that uniform, what with all these robots and mutants and toads running around.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Bolivar Trask. He's a scientific genius who develops the Sentinels.
To the Newbie: Hey, I know this guy! When things got too tense in Westeros, Tyrion dyed his hair, grew a moustache, and fled to Washington D.C. where he could really play politics.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Mystique, a shapeshifter and Magneto’s righthand woman.
To the Newbie: Is her special power the ability to just barely escape breaking public indecency laws with very specifically placed scales?
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To the X-men: This is Beast, a mutant with super-human strength, agility, and speed. He experiments with serums to reduce the physical manifestation of his mutation gave him blue fur.
To the Newbie: This is a werewolf that was let loose in a ballpoint pen factory.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Quicksilver. He is a speedster, and can travel and think at super human speeds.
To the Newbie: This is the guy who waited until the night before Comic-Con to get his cosplay costume in order.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Magneto, a mutant with the power to manipulate metal objects. He’s a mutant-separatist who believes that mutant kind or “homo-superior” is the superior form of the human species and should be in control of things.
To the Newbie: I don't know who this is, but people would take him more seriously if he lost the goofy helmet.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Professor X, circa the 1970s. He's the leader of the X-Men and the world's most powerful telepath.
To the Newbie: This is a mutant with the power of super migraines.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Wolverine, the franchise's most popular mutant. He's the best at what he does and what he does isn't very nice (because it's usually stabbing people). He has healing powers and retractable claws from his hands. He also has a healing factor that allows him to recover from injuries instantaneously and age at a much slower rate than the average person.
To the Newbie: This is some guy with the power to always misplace his shirt. Oh, and he has claws, or something.
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To the X-Men fan: That’'s Bryan Singer. He can be credited (or blamed) for starting our current superhero film craze with the original X-Men movie in 2000. He’s returned to right the ship he set sail all those years ago.
To the Newbie: Wait, who's the normal guy sitting on the rubble, surrounded by all these superheroes? Why would anyone buy this copy of the magazine when the other ones are so much cooler?
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To the X-Men fan: This is the future version of Wolverine. You can tell by the fringes of grey hair and the now-adamantium blades coming out of his hands.
To the Newbie: Hey, someone finally bought Jackman a shirt he couldn't take off gratuitously!
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To the X-Men fan: This is the future version of Professor X who has wisely ditched the bell bottoms and thinning hair for cool body armour and an awesome wheelchair.
To the Newbie: It's none of our business, but maybe the guy in a futuristic wheelchair should skip the huge mutant battle...
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To the X-men fan: This is the future version of Magneto, a mutant who can manipulate metal, and becomes that hateful leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
To the Newbie: Gandalf the Black!
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To the X-Men fan: This is Storm, a mutant with the power to control weather. She can create a tempest at just a thought or burst lightning from her fingertips.
To the Newbie: This is a human-shaped iPhone charger... which is actually quite handy because, seriously, I just charged this thing like an hour ago.
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To the X-men fan: This is Rogue, a mutant whose power allows her to take the powers from other mutants.
To the Newbie: This is someone who should probably get a refund from that hair dye job she got.
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To the X-men fan: This is Warpath, a jack of all trades mutant that can fly, as super-strength, and is almost invulnerable.
To the Newbie: With huge war brewing, and Washington D.C. crumbling behind him, couldn't this simple caveman lawyer bring something more to the fight rather than just two knives?
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To the X-Men fan: This is Kitty Pryde. She's a young mutant with the ability to become intangible, and phase through objects, walls, and even people.
To the Newbie: Wait, isn't that Juno? Did she keep the baby at the end? I never finished it.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Sunspot. He can harness the power of the sun and manifest it into powers like super strength.
To the Newbie: This is a rejected extra from Dragonball: Evolution.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Blink, a mutant who has the powers to teleport herself and other object accross far distances. She can even use her powers to destroy things.
To the Newbie: So first Gandalf and now an Elf? Are you sure this isn't the third Hobbit movie?
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To the X-Men fan: This is Iceman, a mutant that has the power to create and manipulate ice. When things get tough, he can turn his skin into a glassy yet durable ice surface.
To the Newbie: You know, people in this dystopian future have oddly well-groomed facial hair.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Bishop. He has the power to absorb energy and shoot it out in Kinetic blasts. He's from a future where mutants are placed in concentration camps and has an "M" branded on his eye.
To the Newbie: This is undeniable proof that dreadlocks will come back in fashion in the future. You just wait.
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To the X-Men fan: This is Colosus. He's a mutant that can change his skin into super hard organic metal.
To the Newbie: This is the Iron Giant sequel I've been waiting for since 1999.
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To the X-Men fan: This is a future version of a Sentinel that's an obvious upgrade from the one featured on the first magazine cover.
To the Newbie: Whatever this is, it looks a lot scarier than the evil Dyson.
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Became the second youngest Oscar winner of all time (to date) when she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her big-screen debut in "The Piano"

Appeared as a rebellious hippie chick in the 1960s drama "A Walk on the Moon"

Portrayed Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled Jewish children to safety during World War II, in the CBS movie "The Courageous Heart Of Irena"; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a TV movie

U.S. TV acting debut, played Frankie in the USA Network remake of "The Member of the Wedding"

Starred in a series of commercials for MCI

Portrayed Rogue, a genetic mutant who can suck the life from any being, in the big screen version of the Marvel Comic adventure "X-Men"

Played telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse on the HBO series "True Blood"; earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2009 for Best Actress in a Drama Series

Played foster mother to a flock of geese in the family film "Fly Away Home"

Played a young woman who feels certain she caused a tragic car accident in New York City in the drama feature "Margaret"; filming began in 2005 and spent over five years in post-production

London stage debut in "This Is Our Youth"

Cast as a flirtatious female student in Noah Baumbach's "The Squid and the Whale" opposite Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney

Beat out 5,000 girls for the part of Holly Hunter's daughter in Jane Campion's period love story "The Piano"

Summary

It was unclear which fact was more extraordinary about Anna Paquin - that she won an Academy Award at age 11 for her performance in "The Piano" (1993), or after her win, that she had no plans to continue acting. Movieg rs were thankful for her later change of heart, as the Canadian actress continued to give thoughtful, complex and occasionally seductive turns as an adult in a wide variety of projects ranging from big-budget blockbusters like the "X-Men" franchise to independent fare like Noah Bambauch's "The Squid and the Whale" (2005). But it was her foray onto the small screen that allowed for her most compelling performances, particularly as a 19th-century schoolteacher who campaigns for Native American rights in the Emmy-winning miniseries, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (HBO, 2007), for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Paquin also shined in her first regular series television role, playing barmaid and telepath Sookie Stackhouse on Alan Ball's acclaimed "True Blood" (HBO, 2008- ), which only added to an already impressive career for the young actress.

Co-starred on HBO series "True Blood"; Announced engagement August 2009; Married Aug. 21, 2010 in Malibu, CA

Brian Paquin

Father

Separated from Paquin's mother in 1995

Mary Paquin

Mother

Separated from Paquin's father in 1995

Andrew Paquin

Brother

Born c. 1977; Attended Harvard

Katya Paquin

Sister

Born c. 1980

Education

Name

Hutt Intermediate School

Windward School

Columbia University

Notes

"I was the right height." – Paquin to London's Daily Telegraph about why she beat out 5,000 girls for the role of Flora in "The Piano," Nov. 27, 1999

"I had no idea what the Oscars were, and I wasn't expecting to have to do anything. I didn't want to go up and talk with all these people staring at me, waiting for me to say something. Those types of things aren't too fun when you're little." – Paquin to Detour, April 1999

"I asked her to say goodbye to a hotel room she'd stayed in for a few days, where stuff had happened, and I must have watched that tape a thousand times. It was so great." – Cameron Crowe on why he hired Paquin to co-star in his untitled 2000 project, quoted in The Observer, March 5, 2000

"I don't do parts where I can't find something that I understand about the character. I want to make the character realistic enough that the audience will be able to relate to her. I try to be that character. I will try to react like that character." – Paquin in Cinefantastique, August 2000

Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada, lived there until she was four, and then moved to her mother's native New Zealand. In 2000, she moved to Los Angeles, CA.

In spring 2000, Paquin planned to follow Claire Danes and Natalie Portman into Ivy League education, scaling down her acting work to concentrate on psychology.

Paquin was a vegetarian and an avid photographer.

In 2010, while she was recording a public service announcement for the True Colors Fund (a nonprofit organization founded by Cyndi Lauper to support the LGBT community), Paquin declared that she was a bisexual.